The Official Countdown To Tennessee Baseball 2024 (ITS GAMEDAY)

[chuckiepoo]

13 more days!

New Tennessee member Billy Amick hit 13 homers last year at Clemson.

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Third baseman named Billy. Gotta be HOF material….

 

[taylorvol]

Third baseman named Billy. Gotta be HOF material….

Amick has no shortage of confidence—Lots of swag. I bet the Clemson coach regrets pulling him in the Regionals. Cost them the DH and 4 more Amick at bats. And ultimately cost them Amick.

 

[NO SIR EEE]

12 more days!

Kirby Connell needs just 12 appearances during the 2024 season to break the program record of 104 set by Redmond Walsh.

 

[knoxvol52]

12 more days!

Kirby Connell needs just 12 appearances during the 2024 season to break the program record of 104 set by Redmond Walsh.

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Like the Twelve Days of Christmas countdown..

 

[NO SIR EEE]

11 more days!

Junior Blake Burke is 11 home runs away from becoming the schools all-time leader in that category.

 

[chuckiepoo]

11 more days!

Junior Blake Burke is 11 home runs away from becoming the schools all-time leader in that category.

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That is a mind blowing accomplishment. Hope he can stay healthy and blow through that record!

 

[preacherman20]

A friend who knew about both before Christmas said how neat it would be for Kirby and Blake to break both records in the same game.

 

[txbo]

Amick has no shortage of confidence—Lots of swag. I bet the Clemson coach regrets pulling him in the Regionals. Cost them the DH and 4 more Amick at bats. And ultimately cost them Amick.

That turned out to be the Bonehead coaching call of the year in college baseball.

 

[txbo]

12 more days!

Kirby Connell needs just 12 appearances during the 2024 season to break the program record of 104 set by Redmond Walsh.

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Should be in the bag.

 

[txbo]

11 more days!

Junior Blake Burke is 11 home runs away from becoming the schools all-time leader in that category.

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Looking forward to counting that down.

 

[THEONLYTENISEE]

Anybody know when season ticket holders get their tickets?

 

[NO SIR EEE]

10 more days!

In 2021, a program record for Tennessee Baseball was set as it was the first time in program history that 5 Vols were drafted in the first 10 rounds.

Chad Dallas - 4th round (121)
Liam Spence - 5th round (154)
Max Ferguson - 5th round (160)
Connor Pavolony - 7th round (197)
Jake Rucker - 7th round (219)

 

[youcancallmeAl]

Here’s the data to support @txbo position on bunting, courtesy of Billy Beane himself. It is NEGATIVELY correlated with winning games.

Interestingly, dingers, dongs, and big flies are not as positively correlated with winning as on base % and a few other batting categories.

Also, it says "sacrifice hits," not bunting per se.

 

[Ernest T. Vol]

12 more days!

Kirby Connell needs just 12 appearances during the 2024 season to break the program record of 104 set by Redmond Walsh.

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Save a horse is the only walk up song I can identify on the whole team.

 

[Ernest T. Vol]

Anybody know when season ticket holders get their tickets?

Mine just hit our account.

 

[AthensVol2007]

Interestingly, dingers, dongs, and big flies are not as positively correlated with winning as on base % and a few other batting categories.

Also, it says "sacrifice hits," not bunting per se.

Yes, but if this includes run producing sac flies and it’s still negatively correlated overall, I think one could surmise that sac bunts are at best equal to the total correlation of all sac “hits” and likely more negatively correlated since they’re typically done to simply move a runner over and rarely used to manufacture runs.

 

[txbo]

Interestingly, dingers, dongs, and big flies are not as positively correlated with winning as on base % and a few other batting categories.

Also, it says "sacrifice hits," not bunting per se.

We win when we hit dingers.
We lose when we bunt.

Case closed.

 

[NO SIR EEE]

9 more days!

On June 4, 2021, Tennessee’s Drew Gilbert blasted a walk off grand slam to beat Wright State 9-8.

 

[Ernest T. Vol]

 

[MAD]

Tennessee baseball released some wallpapers for your phone for the upcoming season.

 

[TheBigOne10]

I can taste it.

 

[knoxvol52]

 

[NO SIR EEE]

8 more days!

The Vols are ranked #8 in two of all the 5 polls, that rank college baseball heading into the new season.

NCBWA: No. 5
Baseball America: No. 8
USA Today Coaches Poll: No. 8
D1Baseball: No. 9
Perfect Game: No. 11

 

[cardvolfan]

We win when we hit dingers.
We lose when we bunt.

Case closed.

Can’t say I disagree with that.

 

[cardvolfan]

Anyone know how the scrimmages have gone this week? Curious as to any details someone can share.